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Just wanted to post this. I don't remember a professional team or college team using the area code as a rallying cry for the fan base. 404 was started by CGC and looks like Urban is trying to copy him down in Jacksonville. Now we all know Ludacris was using area codes in the 90's, but not in the same way
It's probably just a happy coincidence. The Jags could hire the same marketing agency Tech did (J1S). But since Tech's challenges are different, I doubt very much the Jags would adopt the same brand strategy. (The head coach does not usually run marketing, so again ... Urban may have quipped this, but I wouldn't read too much into it.)
You guys missed it. It's all about the 757 and Michael Vick going and resurrecting the VT program a decade or more ago.
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The debate about direction is in all the other threads.
Just wanted to post this. I don't remember a professional team or college team using the area code as a rallying cry for the fan base. 404 was started by CGC and looks like Urban is trying to copy him down in Jacksonville. Now we all know Ludacris was using area codes in the 90's, but not in the same way
I think it meant more 20 years ago. Now, with 678, 770, 706 etc ... the metro area is diluted with numbers so it may not have the impact it might have earlier. It's clever though and I hope it works.
We discussed this issue in another thread like a year or 2 ago. You're right. Even with the GT class sizes growing, we are not replacing the "old classes" with high dollar donations to the Football program or GTAA. There is an extreme lull from the mid 90s to the late 2010's where the majority of your students were not interested in football. Not to the degree that a clemson, uga, bama, tennessee student may be. We do have a different breed of student. They are usually more academically focused, and the whole party till 5 am, binge drinking during game day is not in their weekly lineup. Most grads of the schools I listed above riminess of the drunken weekends on campus. Their highlights were those huge parties and sleeping around and all. Some GT students have those same shared memories, but not to the degree of those schools. To me those schools hold a "closer place to their heart" to their students due to the more laid back student body. What we don't see going on behind the scenes is Collins has slowly tried to change the attitude of the school as a whole. He is trying to make it more energized in the sense of game day. I am sure if he could find a way to create GTs version of The Grove he would. The more drunken loud students the better. Simply because if it doesn't pay in yelling and screaming for the Yellow Jackets today, it will hopefully pay down the road when they miss their :glory days" and wish they could go back to school to be with their friends and party.
This is very well stated and supports what I have noticed over the years. My friends and colleagues (from other schools) have a different type of recollection about their college days than I do. I am glad I went but don't look back at it with any type of sentimental nostalgia. I do keep up with a handful of my buddies though.
